Most of the medium and large exploration and production (E&P) companies today leverage shared services and outsourcing as a means to reduce cost and drive efficiencies in delivering basic information technology (IT) infrastructure and software services. At the same time, smaller E&P companies have struggled to see similar cost and efficiency gains. While the emergence of cloud-based infrastructure, platform and software services has the potential to change this, unique needs of the industry, such as remote locations, mobile computing and asynchronous processing power requirement for simulation, require a more customized approach to IT service delivery. Instead of continuing to source…